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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — An
international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision
that took place between two galaxies when the universe was only half its
current age using the...
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii — Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within
a two-week period, leading astronomers to speculate that these presumed
rare "outbursts," which can send...
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MAUNA KEA, HI -- An
international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University
of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn’s star, one of the oldest
stars found near...
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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers has discovered and photographed a gas giant only 155 light years from our solar system, adding to
the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct...
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The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. The initial...
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Mauna Kea, HI—After 8 years of observations
scientists from the SETI Institute have found an exotic orbit for the
largest Trojan asteroid, (624) Hektor—the only one known to possess a
moon. The...
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Mauna Kea, HI—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data
gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for
planetary scientists that could provide...
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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp,
the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has
directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf...
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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – Astronomers have
discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas,
revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect
galaxies...
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